Landscape Planning

What is
Landscape
Land refers to both place and people dwelling
there
Scape refers to shape and
represents an association combining both
 landscape planning
According to Erv Zube (1931–2002)

is defined as an activity concerned with developing

landscaping amongst competing land uses while
protecting natural processes and significant cultural
and natural resources.
Importance of Landscape
Planning
 Creates an healthy and Vital environment by
encouraging physical outdoor activity and pleasing
visual effect destresses our mind.
 Offers aesthetic enjoyment, escapism, tranquility
and a sense of belonging to an area with distinct
natural and cultural identity
 By applying creative and technical skills with
planned arrangement of natural and constructed
elements on the land we can create a ecologically
sensitive landscape resulting in a useful,
aesthetically appealing and safe landscape
Intent

 Landscape planning is not just beautification, but it’s

about creating a space and the ambiance of a
development, initiating lifestyle and create a new public
realm and also a quality built environment focused on
the ecological footprint and
the environmental framework.
 Developing a landscape plan in conjunction with the
architectural drawings assures that clients will enjoy a
better building experience, a superior end result and a
significant cost savings. Planning the design of the
property along with
the design of the house brings better organization to a
project.
Role of a Landscape Planner

 Urban design and site planning

 Storm water management
 Park and recreation planning
Green infrastructure planning and
provision
 Master planning
Elements of Landscape planning

 COLOR: easy to identify and relate, but challenging

to use correctly. Bright colors give the garden a
cheerful and pleasing look.
Texture

TEXTURE: is a subtle but important element of good design.

The more we understand texture the more professional is the
landscape.
Defined in terms of Fine or course, heavy or light, thin or
dense, light or shade
Can also be defined in relationship between foliage and twig
size.
Line: connects and defines space
➢ Defines room and connects people
➢ Defines horizontal and vertical lines in landscape and
creates a distinction between proposed and exiting
landscapes.
Form: defines physical presence of plant and
the space it takes up in the yard.

➢ Horizontal, are the spreading forms

emphasize the lateral extent and breadth of
space
➢ Rounded allow for easy eye movement and
create pleasant undulation
➢ Vase-shaped trees define a comfortable
people space
➢ Weeping form leads the eye back to ground
➢ Pyramidal leads the eye up
Balanc
Formal balance: repeats the same
e
left and right giving an essence of
dignity and stability in the landscape
Informal balance: differs from
left to right giving an essence of
curiosity, movement and feels
alive
Principles of design

Unity

Simplicity and
variety
Scale
Unity is the glue that holds the landscape
together and repetition is the means to it.

➢ Attracts and holds attention

➢ Starts with the storyline and
family analysis
Simplicity and
Variety
➢ Is a degree of repetition rather than contrast by creating unity
➢ Diversity and contrast in form, texture and color preventing
monotony
Scal
e design is in proper proportion
A
and scale when pleasing
relationship exists among the
components of the landscape
and the design as a whole
Absolute scale:
comparative value of
landscape elements to
fixed structure
Low scale: is relaxing
and calming
High scale: promotes
action
Research and Analysis

 Site inventory; soil drainage, climate

conditions, and existing vegetation.
 Critical for both plants selection and
placements
 Important because the same climate conditions
is that affects the plants-temperature and
humidity , rain and wind sunlight- also affect the
user.
 A design is in proper proportion and scale when
pleasing relationship exists among and between
each component and the design as a whole
Determine your
needs
 Checklist of your/your client’s needs and desires(how landscape can

 be used0 Establish theme or style into your design

 Common
 themes
▪ Geometric
▪ Circles
▪ Squares
▪ Rectangles
▪ Organic
 edges
 Curvilinear
 Could be historical in
nature Spanish, oriental,
Andre Le Notre
Vaux-le-Vicomte
Versailles Garden
Frederick Law
Olmsted Olmsted believed that the rural, picturesque
landscape contrasted with and counteracted the
confining and unhealthful conditions of the
crowded urban environment and served to
strengthen society by providing a place where all
classes could mingle in contemplation and
enjoyment of the pastoral experience. He sought
to screen his "pleasure grounds" completely from
the intrusions of daily life by screening them with
thick plantings along their borders, separating and
excluding commercial traffic, and discouraging all
usage of the grounds which were not in harmony
with this goal. He also strove to bring the
landscape as close to as much of the urban
population as possible, so that all could benefit
from it.
Central Park, New york
Stanley Hart White
Vertical
Gardens
 Interest in the modernism of Stanley Hart White has been renewed

by the discovery of his 1938 patent for the first–known vertical

garden. He called them Botanical Bricks. White's patent for
theVegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and System describes a new
method "for producing an architectonic structure of any buildable size,
shape or height, whose visible or exposed surfaces may present a
 permanently growing covering of vegetation.
Even with the prominence of vegetated planning in contemporary
discourse, White's invention remains unrealized and entirely unknown
more than eighty years after its initial conceptualization. White outlines
the art of creating vertical gardens of steel, substrate, vegetation, light,
and sculpture to act as backdrops to modern ways of thinking and the
new invention of modern living.
Peter Walker, projects
Levinson Plaza, Boston
Andrea Corchran